Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though at 33 he is already a veteran of countless brushes with death or dethronement, Jordan's King Hussein has never faced a challenge quite as taxing as the one he faces now. His country is seething with frustration over losing the fertile land of the Jordan River'...
MRS. DANIEL: I have to speak of my motives, since this question was asked of me. I did not act on impulse. I thought about what I was doing, and fully knew what the consequences might be. I do not consider myself a public person, still less a political one...
I thought some public personages might speak out publicly, but they did not. I was faced with the choice of acting on my own or keeping silent. For me to have kept silent would have meant joining those who support the action with which I did not agree. That would...
LITVINOV: Our innocence of the charges is self-evident, and I do not consider myself guilty. At the same time, that the verdict against me will be "guilty" is just as evident to me. I knew this beforehand, when I made up my mind to go to Red Square. Nothing...
He writes slowly and meticulously. He began perhaps his best-known work, Snow Country, in 1934 and did not consider it completed until 1947. A bittersweet, erotic story of the doomed affair of a deteriorating geisha and a Tokyo dilettante, the novel shows Kawabata at his best, sensually describing the...